Parlor Witchcraft

Screw the cap back on the Gallo and go to bed.

R1 it has come up before and will again.

Davida?

OP, we have these gifts through our "queer ancestry" as it has been called. We see a bigger vision because we are always looking at the bigger society (heteronormative = 90% of culture) from outside it, and also experiencing the struggle as a minority (self-hatred, discrimination, family disownment, societal homophobia, religious issues etc). So we have had our 3rd eye opened more. Start trusting your own intuition more.

I’m a Southern Witch…

I have bitchy cousins, not witchy.

I’m a sandwich ….

r4 - Gays are more sensitive to what's going on because of the reasons you mentioned. No third eye is needed. Certain black women can read social situations quickly and accurately for the same reason.

I genuinely believe that my mother and I are "softly" psychic in the sense that we both pick up on energy very easily and have both had supernatural experiences and bizarre coincidences/synchronicities occur throughout our lives. It was never something that was looked at as a "power", though—in fact, most anything supernatural terrifies my mother and she is pretty superstitious. Any kind of Tarot cards, Ouija boards, communicating with the dead—all of it horrifies her and is verboten.

My mom's dad was an old school Irish Catholic from the midwest and she was brought up in the Catholic faith, so she has a lot of the baggage that comes with that which I think influences her way of thinking. My mom's mother was Eastern European from the Black Sea region of Ukraine, and there was a whole host of superstitiousness that came from that side of the family. My great-grandma, though born and brought up in Odessa, was of German Lutheran heritage and was an extremely superstitious woman. She wouldn't even allow playing cards in her house because she thought they brought evil into your home. She also believed in the "evil eye" and felt that people could will bad energy on you. She also claimed to have had a few supernatural experiences in her life, one of which was a vision of Jesus. My great-grandfather was partly Jewish, but I know very little about him because he was taken out by Germans during the war. I only have a cursory knowledge about Jewish superstitions/beliefs about the supernatural but would like to learn more given it's part of my family tree.

Solid contribution, R9.

My nonna was famous in her little Italian village for doing the "malocchio" (evil eye) prayer over people and removing the curse. She brought this talent with her to the U.S.

As a kid I remember her living room was always filled with a bunch of Italians from the old country and their adult children and wayward grandchildren waiting to see my grandmother who would hold court in the kitchen.

Nonna wouldn't accept money for this service so these people always came bearing baskets of produce from their gardens or boxes of pastries from the Italian bakery. I liked the people who brought pastries. Some of the old ladies would try to circumvent the system by trying to shove money into my hand as a I sat on the floor watching tv. I wasn't allowed to take the money and would certainly get smacked by nonna if I did. So I developed a clenched fist posture to fend off the old ladies and their five dollar bills as I sat glued to the TV.

My mother and I did not inherit nonna's "gift" for removing the malocchio and neither did any of my cousins.

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What you are calling a bunch of superstitious crap is just gut instinct and reading the room. I'm good too but don't kid myself I have a gift. I can pick up subtle cues and vibes very well.

A guy I was friends with briefly said his mother was "witchy." I ran into them once in the local pharmacy. He later told me, "wake up to who you are." He wouldn't tell me what he meant, "I can't tell you who you are." Yoo this day, I have no idea what he was talking about.

I wouldn’t touch that stuff. I don’t need any bad juju in my life. I worked with a guy once who played in Wicca. They always say they only use it for good spells but that’s idiotic. And this guy had the worst luck. He brought a stranger home one night and woke up the next morning missing keys and his car. Then he ended up in the hospital with listeria and lost his rental. This all happened in 2 months. Don’t dabble in them black arts.

Don't dabble in bringing strangers home one night, either.

A friend of mine does tarot readings

My grandmother and one of my aunts were prescient and did seances and card readings.

Two of my sisters and I continued the tradition.

We kind of gave it up as time went by. When my aunt passed away, my cousin (her daughter) kept after me to contact her and ask her some questions.....I finally did after she pestered me for weeks.

Today another cousin called me and when I mentioned that SHE hadn't called me in several weeks told me that she told her I was an agent of devil and she never believed I word I told her.

LOL....at least I don't have to listen to her rambling calls anymore. Her mother only "told" her what she really thought about her....LOL.

Isn’t magical thinking such fun?

R14. It means you're gayer than a picnic basket and you dont see it.

My Irish grandmother read tea leaves and was supposedly very good at it. She mad a promise to the Virgin that if my uncle John came home from the Pacific during WWII, she wouldn't read. She would look at the tea leaves, but not say anything after he came home.

A friend reads palms and wrote a few books on palmistry.

My sister goes to psychics once in awhile. I really have to bite my tongue as she goes on and about how the psychic knew so much. She was recently diagnosed and hospitalized a few times with schizoaffective disorder. I don't think any psychics saw that coming.

My grandmother read cards and tobacco smoke, but only when critical for people who were dear to her. I don’t know much about what all she did other than people trusted what she saw and never discussed it. It seems to have passed to an aunt for whom it’s been the primary source of income her entire adulthood. My mom thinks I’m the one who got it from my generation but I think it’s 90% EQ. Still, I call my her first thing in the morning after any “special” dreams and she always wants to hear about them.